So I am moving to Germany and since they are pretty rough on their piracy laws (even though I’ve not had a leak in ten years) I don’t feel the old VPN/killswitch/public tracker thing is going to keep me safe enough.

So I’ve been looking into seedboxes and am interested in ultra.cc but still using VPN and FileZilla for downloading. I read up on their allowance of public trackers, but if they receive a DMCA notice they can send it to you or delete your account.

So I ask, for those that use seedboxes how do you get by with public trackers? All I really care about is downloading games (FitGirl)… I am accepted to 1 private tracker but they have no games and am struggling…

  • sem@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    1 day ago

    I’m not sure what the seedbox hard disk would have that would trace back to you. But if they have your IP address they can send a letter to your ISP or whatever they do.

    • bountygiver [any]@lemmy.ml
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      1 day ago

      typically you’d just take a seedbox that wouldn’t do that (same criteria as when you are choosing a VPN, technically a shitty VPN can also leak out your info like this). Unless you are using like a mainstream commercial server like aws/azure as one.

      Most seedbox providers use virtual machines to have a bunch of customer share a single IP, and any self respecting ones will not keep logs to associate any particular outgoing connection with a particular customer.